Poem quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias
-My name is ozymandias king of kings
-boundless and bare
-sand streach far away
-sneer of cold command
-half sunk, shattered visage
London
-i wonder through the charted streets where the chartered Themes does flow
-youthful harlots curse
-blood runs down palace walls
-hapless soliders sigh
-marks of weakness marks of woe
-mind forged manacles i hear
-plaugues the marriage herse
The Prelude
-black and huge
-looming over me
-act of stealth, and troubles pleasure
-i struck and struck again
-there hung darkness, call it solitude
-trouble to my dream
My Last Dutchess
-my gift of a 900 year old name
i did not stoop
-notice neptune
Charge of the Light brigade
-cannon the the left of them, cannon to the right of then, cannon in front of them
-into the vallay pf death rode the 600
-into the jaws of death, into the outh of hell
-honour the light brigade, honour the 600
Exposure
-we turn back to our dying
-but nothing happens
-all their eyes are ice
-merciless iced winds knive us
-far off, like a dull rumor of war
rain soaks and cloud storm saggy
-is it that we are dying
Storm on the Island
-we build our houses sqaut
-spits like a tame cat turned savage
-it is a huge nothing we fear
Bayonet charge
-suddenly awake and running
–useless as a rife on a numb arm
-his terrors touchy diamond
-patriotic tear that brimmed in his eye
-was he the hand pointing second
Remains
-end of story exept not really
-his blood shadow stays in the street
-the three of us open fire
-the drink and the drugs wont flush him out
-his bloody life in my bloody hands
-hes here in my head when i close my eyes
Poppies
-spasmf of paper red
-hoping to hear your playground voice catching in the wind
-realease the songbird from its cage
War Photographer
-spools of suffering set up in ordered rows
-hundred of agonies in black and white
-pircked with tears between sundays and pre-lucnh beers
-fields which dont explode beneath the feet of running children in nightmare heat
-blood stained in foreign dust
Tissue
-sun shines through their bourders
-who was born to whom
-and never wish to build with brock again
-what was paid by credit card miht fly our loives like apper kites
The Emigree
- i am branded by an impression of sunlight
- it tastes of sunlight
- -but my city comes to me in its own white plane
Kamikaze
-a shaven head full of incantations
-her father embarked at sunrise
-enough fuel for a oneway trip into history
-once a tuna, the dark prince, muscualr, dangerous
-which had been a better way to die
Checking out me history
-dem tell me dem tell me what dem want to tell me
-blind me to my own identity
-carving out me identity
-dem tell me about the man who disscover de baloon
